Emilio Rabasa and the survival of Porfirian liberalism : the man, his career, and his ideas, 1856-1930 / Charles A. Hale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hale, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1930-2008.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rabasa, Emilio, 1856-1930.

Rabasa, Emilio.

Mexico--Politics and government--1867-1910.

Mexico.

Mexico--Politics and government--1910-1946.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an intellectual and career biography of Emilio Rabasa, the eminent Mexican jurist, politician, novelist, diplomat, journalist, and historian who opposed the Revolution of 1910-20, spent the years 1914 to 1920 in exile, but returned and was reintegrated into Mexican life until his death in 1930. Though he is still idolized by the juridical community of Mexico City, little is known about Rabasa beyond his principal publications. He was a reserved, enigmatic man who kept no personal archive and sought a low public profile. Hale reveals unknown aspects of his life, career, and personality from two extensive bodies of correspondence—with Jos Yves Limantour, finance minister from 1893 to 1911, and William F. Buckley, Sr., American lawyer and petroleum entrepreneur. He also analyzes Rabasa's political, juridical, and social ideas, arguing that they demonstrate continuity and even survival of late nineteenth-century liberalism through the revolutionary years and beyond. Rabasa's was a transformed liberalism, based on scientific politics drawn from European positivism and historical constitutionalism—an elitist rejection of abstract doctrines of natural rights and egalitarian democracy, emphasizing strong centralized yet constitutionally limited authority and empirically based economic development.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Photographs

Acknowledgments

Preface

ABBREVIATIONS

Chapter One. Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century Heritage

Chapter Two. Forming a Porfirian Career: Oaxaca, Mexico City, and Chiapas (1856–1894)

Chapter Three. Senator, Juridical Theorist, and Constitutional Historian (1894–1912)

Chapter Four. Confronting the Revolution (1911–1914)

Chapter Five. The Exile Years: Politics, Journalism, and History (1914–1920)

Chapter Six. Europe and the Return to Mexico: Economic Development and the Social Agenda of the Revolution (1919–1930)

Chapter Seven. The Constitution of 1917, the Supreme Court, and the Conflict of Legal Traditions (1912–1930)

Chapter Eight. Conclusion: The Survival of Porfirian Liberalism

Appendix A. A Castelar

Appendix B. Emilio Rabasa’s Immediate Family

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-238) and index.

ISBN:

9780804786836

0804786836

OCLC:

845254754